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Contents
Steve Jobs
Description
Author Bio
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Characters
Introduction: How This Book Came to Be
Chapter One: Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen
Chapter Two: Odd Couple: The Two Steves
Chapter Three: The Dropout: Turn On, Tune In . . .
Chapter Four: Atari and India: Zen and the Art of Game Design
Chapter Five: The Apple I: Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In . . .
Chapter Six: The Apple II: Dawn of a New Age
Chapter Seven: Chrisann and Lisa: He Who Is Abandoned . . .
Chapter Eight: Xerox and Lisa: Graphical User Interfaces
Chapter Nine: Going Public: A Man of Wealth and Fame
Chapter Ten: The Mac Is Born: You Say You Want a Revolution
Chapter Eleven: The Reality Distortion Field: Playing by His Own Set of Rules
Chapter Twelve: The Design: Real Artists Simplify
Chapter Thirteen: Building the Mac: The Journey Is the Reward
Chapter Fourteen: Enter Sculley: The Pepsi Challenge
Chapter Fifteen: The Launch: A Dent in the Universe
Chapter Sixteen: Gates and Jobs: When Orbits Intersect
Chapter Seventeen: Icarus: What Goes Up . . .
Chapter Eighteen: NeXT: Prometheus Unbound
Chapter Nineteen: Pixar: Technology Meets Art
Chapter Twenty: A Regular Guy: Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word
Chapter Twenty-One: Family Man: At Home with the Jobs Clan
Chapter Twenty-Two: Toy Story: Buzz and Woody to the Rescue
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Second Coming: What Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round at Last . . .
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Restoration: The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win
Chapter Twenty-Five: Think Different: Jobs as iCEO
Chapter Twenty-Six: Design Principles: The Studio of Jobs and Ive
Chapter Twenty-Seven: The iMac: Hello (Again)
Chapter Twenty-Eight: CEO: Still Crazy after All These Years
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Apple Stores: Genius Bars and Siena Sandstone
Chapter Thirty: The Digital Hub: From iTunes to the iPod
Chapter Thirty-One: The iTunes Store: I’m the Pied Piper
Chapter Thirty-Two: Music Man: The Sound Track of His Life
Chapter Thirty-Three: Pixar’s Friends: . . . and Foes
Chapter Thirty-Four: Twenty-first-century Macs: Setting Apple Apart
Chapter Thirty-Five: Round One: Memento Mori
Chapter Thirty-Six: The iPhone: Three Revolutionary Products in One
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Round Two: The Cancer Recurs
Chapter Thirty-Eight: The iPad: Into the Post-PC Era
Chapter Thirty-Nine: New Battles: And Echoes of Old Ones
Chapter Forty: To Infinity: The Cloud, the Spaceship, and Beyond
Chapter Forty-One: Round Three: The Twilight Struggle
Chapter Forty-Two: Legacy: The Brightest Heaven of Invention
Acknowledgments
Sources
Interviews (conducted 2009-2011)
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Illustration Credits
Photo Insert
Footnotes
Benjamin Franklin
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter One: Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America
Chapter Two: Pilgrim’s Progress: Boston, 1706–1723
Chapter Three: Journeyman: Philadelphia and London, 1723–1726
Chapter Four: Printer: Philadelphia, 1726–1732
Chapter Five: Public Citizen: Philadelphia, 1731–1748
Chapter Six: Scientist and Inventor: Philadelphia, 1744–1751
Chapter Seven: Politician: Philadelphia, 1749–1756
Chapter Eight: Troubled Waters: London, 1757–1762
Chapter Nine: Home Leave: Philadelphia, 1763–1764
Chapter Ten: Agent Provocateur: London, 1765–1770
Chapter Eleven: Rebel: London, 1771–1775
Chapter Twelve: Independence: Philadelphia, 1775–1776
Chapter Thirteen: Courtier: Paris, 1776–1778
Chapter Fourteen: Bon Vivant: Paris, 1778–1785
Chapter Fifteen: Peacemaker: Paris, 1778–1785
Chapter Sixteen: Sage: Philadelphia, 1785–1790
Chapter Seventeen: Epilogue
Chapter Eighteen: Conclusions
Cast of Characters
Chronology
Currency Conversions
Acknowledgments
Sources and Abbreviations
Notes
Index
About the Author
Einstein
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Main Characters
Chapter One: The Light-Beam Rider
Chapter Two: Childhood, 1879–1896
Chapter Three: The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896–1900
Chapter Four: The Lovers, 1900–1904
Chapter Five: The Miracle Year: Quanta and Molecules, 1905
Chapter Six: Special Relativity, 1905
Chapter Seven: The Happiest Thought, 1906–1909
Chapter Eight: The Wandering Professor, 1909–1914
Chapter Nine: General Relativity, 1911–1915
Chapter Ten: Divorce, 1916–1919
Chapter Eleven: Einstein’s Universe, 1916–1919
Chapter Twelve: Fame, 1919
Chapter Thirteen: The Wandering Zionist, 1920–1921
Chapter Fourteen: Nobel Laureate, 1921–1927
Chapter Fifteen: Unified Field Theories, 1923–1931
Chapter Sixteen: Turning Fifty, 1929–1931
Chapter Seventeen: Einstein’s God
Chapter Eighteen: The Refugee, 1932–1933
Chapter Nineteen: America, 1933–1939
Chapter Twenty: Quantum Entanglement, 1935
Chapter Twenty-One: The Bomb, 1939–1945
Chapter Twenty-Two: One-Worlder, 1945–1948
Chapter Twenty-Three: Landmark, 1948–1953
Chapter Twenty-Four: Red Scare, 1951–1954
Chapter Twenty-Five: The End, 1955
Epilogue: Einstein’s Brain and Einstein’s Mind
Sources
Notes
Index
Footnotes
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